Nushell

Summary

Item Value

Homepage

https://www.nushell.sh/

Binary

nu

Role in Dev-Centr

Recommended default shell on Windows, macOS, and Linux

Book / install

https://www.nushell.sh/book/installation.html

Source

https://github.com/nushell/nushell

Detection hints (for tools)

Tools that require Nushell can treat any of these as strong signals (combine for robustness):

  • Environment: NU_VERSION set in a Nushell process tree

  • Parent / current process name: nu / nushell

  • Invoking shell identity available to child processes (prefer documented Nushell env conventions over guessing)

If the tool is not under Nushell but nu is on PATH, relaunch inside Nushell (see OpenShellOrg nu-require). If Nushell is missing, tell the user the tool requires it, link to https://www.nushell.sh/, and optionally offer install.

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